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Building Deep Tech

Ilir Aliu
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The show for founders building real deep tech. Each episode features founders, executives, and builders in AI, robotics, and hardware — breaking down how they build, scale, and learn. Hosted by Ilir Aliu | 22Astronauts. Whether you’re building now or just curious — tune in.

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Evan Beard is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots, building AI-trained industrial robot arms designed to automate real factory work, not demos:In this episode, Evan shares a founder path that started in software startups and Y Combinator long bef... more

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Grace Brown is the founder and CEO of Andromeda, building social companion robots designed for aged care and healthcare environments:

In this episode, Grace shares a founder journey that started long before a company existed. She had been building r... more

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Camilla Mazzoleni is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of FORGIS, a Zurich-based startup building an AI operating layer for industrial automation:

In this episode, Camilla shares a founder journey shaped long before robotics.

She grew up a... more

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Stephen James is the founder and CEO of Neuracore, and Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London:

In this episode, Stephen shares his path from growing up in Wales to spending a decade at Imperial, a postdoc at Berkeley, and e... more

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Steve Xie is the founder and CEO of Lightwheel AI, building the simulation and synthetic data layer powering the next generation of embodied AI and humanoid robotics.

In this episode, Steve shares a rare founder journey that starts far from robotics... more

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I talk with Animesh Garg,Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech and one of the leading voices in robot learning today:

We talk about growing up in India, building his first autonomous vehicle on a $280 budget after being rejected from a CMU program, an... more

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In this episode, I talk with Prof. Dr. Marco Huber, Professor for Cognitive Production Systems at the University of Stuttgart and Scientific Director for AI at Fraunhofer IPA.

Marco shares his journey from a middle-class upbringing with no academic ... more

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Stefan Dörr-Laukien is the co-founder and CEO of NODE Robotics, a Stuttgart-based company building the software layer behind scalable mobile robot fleets.

In this episode, Stefan shares how his path into robotics did not start with founding ambition... more

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Evan Beard
Co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots, a robotics company
Standard Bots
Episode: Ep 100 | You Need To Be 10x Better (w/ Evan Beard)
Grace Brown
Founder and CEO at Andromeda Robotics, building Abby, a social companion robot for nursing homes.
Andromeda Robotics
Episode: Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown)
Steve Xie
Founder and CEO of Lightwheel, a simulation provider focused on robotics and AI.
Lightwheel
Episode: Ep 96 | Talent Didn’t Save Me, Consistency Did (w/ Steve Xie)
Animesh Garg
Robotics researcher and educator
Episode: Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)
Marco Huber
Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Scientific Director at Fraunhofer IPA
University of Stuttgart, Fraunhofer IPA
Episode: Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber)
Stefan Dörr-Laukien
Co-founder and CEO of NODE Robotics
NODE Robotics
Episode: Ep 93 | Scaling Is Harder Than Building The First Robot (w/ Stefan Dörr-Laukien)
Harald Schäfer
CTO at Coma AI, leads the autonomy team at a self-driving car startup.
Coma AI
Episode: Ep 91 | The Real Truth Of Autonomy Lives In The Stats (w/ Harals Schäfer)
Albane Dersy
Co-founder of Inbolt, developing AI for industrial robot guidance.
Inbolt
Episode: Ep 89 | Business Masterclass: Selling First Before Building (w/ Albane Dersy)
Hendrik Susemihl
CEO and co-founder of GoodBytz, focusing on robotics in the food service industry.
GoodBytz
Episode: Ep 90 | Why are you not throwing yourself into this? (w/ Hendrik Susemihl)

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Ilir Aliu
Host of discussions focusing on entrepreneurship, robotics, and deep tech innovation.

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Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown)
Q: What influenced your decision to become an entrepreneur?
I wanted to build Abby quickly and at a large scale.
Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown)
Q: How did you frame it?
You can't be what you can't see.
Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)
Q: What's your goal? What are you working on in the next few years?
I'm excited about this idea of the next generation in computing, believing that robots will become the computers of tomorrow.
Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)
Q: Was it luck or hard work that led you to where you are now?
There are aspects of the problem most people don't know, but I attribute my success to my grit and making good decisions at each step of my career.
Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber)
Q: Do you think this was one of the reasons why a few of those things happened, or was there also an internal drive pushing you in that kind of direction as well?
Marco believes it was a mixture of both internal drive and external support from teachers and professors who recognized his potential.

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